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SHEEP. 



If any sheep are entered, they will receive such premium as the 

 Committee may recommend to be awarded. 



Note. — All animals that come more than ten miles, whether teams 

 for ploughing, or animals entered for premiums or exhibition, will be 

 fed the night previous to the exhibition, at the expense of the Society. 



XVI. FRUIT TREES. 



For the best nursery of fruit trees, not less than five hundred in 

 number, raised from the seed, and one or more years old from the 

 bud or graft, first premium, - - - ten dollars. 



2d premium, .... eight dollars. 



8d premium, - "Washington's Letters on Agriculture. 



For the best apple orchard, not less than seventy-five trees, which 

 shall have been planted or set out since the year 1845, and shall be 

 in the best thriving state in 1849, first premium, ten dollars. 



2d premium, .... eight dollars. 



3d premium, .... four dollars. 



For the best engrafted or budded pear trees, not less than twenty- 

 five trees, set out since the year 1845, and in the best thriving state 

 in the autumn of 1849, first premium, - ten dollars. 



2d premium, .... five dollars. 



For the best peach orchard, not less than fifty trees, set out since 

 the year 1845, and Avhich shall be in the best thriving state in the 

 autumn of 1847, first premium, - - ten dollars. 



2d premium, .... fiy© dollars. 



XVII. CRANBERRIES, 



For the best experiment on the cultivation of the cranberry, on not 

 less than half an acre of land, the quantity, quality and expense of 

 culture being taken into consideration, to be paid in 1847, 1848 and 

 1849, ..... fifteen dollars. 



For the best experiment do. on not less than one quarter of an 

 acre of land, .... ten dollars. 



For the best do. do. on not less than two rods of land, five dollars. 



XVIII. EXTERMINATING WEEDS. 



For the best practical experiment on exterminating wood waxen, 



